Method and apparatus for providing/receiving user interface in which client characteristics have been reflected
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-sun Ryu, Kyung-mo Park
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing/receiving a user interface (UI) is provided. In the method and apparatus, a server provides, to a client, a UI encoded in a multimedia data format by considering client characteristics. Accordingly, various UIs for controlling the same server can be provided/received, thus making a UI session between the single server and various devices possible.
Claims22
A method in which a client receives a user interface (UI) from a server, the method comprising:
- transmitting information about characteristics of the client to the server;
- and
- receiving the UI which is transmitted by the server based on the transmitted information.
A method in which a server provides a UI to a client, the method comprising:
- receiving information about characteristics of the client from the client;
- and
- providing a UI in which the characteristics of the client have been reflected based on the information, to the client.
A UI receiving apparatus included in a client which receives a UI from a server, the UI receiving apparatus comprising:
- a characteristic information transmission unit transmitting information about characteristics of the client to the server;
- and
- a UI receiving unit receiving the UI which is transmitted by the server based on the transmitted information.
A UI providing apparatus included in a server which provides a UI to a client, the UI providing apparatus comprising:
- a characteristic information transmission unit receiving information about characteristics of the client from the client;
- and
- a UI providing unit providing a UI in which the characteristics of the client have been reflected based on the information, to the client.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.